At Ballintemple a big stone marks the place where lie buried some of Cromwells planters.

Ballintemple is our townland, and Ballintemple is our parish, and it is the barony of Kilmanagh Lower, Co Tipperary.
There are twenty - two families in Ballintemple. Ryan is the family name most common. The houses are all slated and most of them are new.
The land is high but not hilly; it is good.
There are two woods in Ballintemple, one is called Lasna, and the other has no name. Both woods are very big, there is only a river dividing one from the other.
There is one river in Ballintemple, it is called the Black Bridge River. There are no lakes. We have no stories about the woods or river.
There is a woman named Mrs Croke living in Ballintemple. She was on

In olden times football was a very rare game. The first teams that are remembered to have played football in this district are Mullahoran and Ballintemple. The former were known as the "Mullahoran Dreadnots" and the latter as the "Ballintemple Grattans." There was a match kicked in the field of Mr. Hugh Reilly Urble in the year 1889 between these two teams. The "Ballintemple Grattans" won the victory as was the case in every game. There were twenty-one men on each side and some Ballintemple men who were famous in the field were Messrs. Jack Lynch, Thomas Lynch Corduff and James Smith Bruskey. The ball used in these games was made of hay.
Hurling was first played in this district about the same time. The hurleys were called camans and

In Arklow barony- north by Ballykive (Ui Cadhain) and CastlemacAdam (east) Arklow south and Kilpipe (west)
4087 acres Tithes £112.10.0 go to Rev.Ed.Simple, Rector, Balykillageer.
Is 1400 feet above sea 4miles x 2.5 Irish.Places of Worship:
Ballintemple E.C. near entrance to present Hurley's farm;
Ballykillageer R.C. Glebe House Coolgreaney
2 school houses Ballykillageer, close to R.C. chapel and Ballintemple.
Antiquities: ruins of church and cemetry in Ballintemple and ruins of R.C. chapel 4 chains south of Ballycoogue House.
Ballintemple church is in S.E. side of Ballintemple townland and another also in ruins in the centre.
Ballintemple school is also in the South -central south part by the side of the road- a neat slated building in good repair, built in 1827. 33 on rolls, 16 are protestant, rest are R.C. 20 males and 13 females.

Four Grave Yards are in this parish in Ballintemple Ballygriffen Ballinahinch, and Templeberry. The one in Ballintemple is a square Grave Yard. As you would go in the big gate you would see where a doorway led into the old church that was there formly. No ruins of the church is there now. Tomb stones are numerous in the Grave yard. Some of the Tombstones are very old and more are newly put there.

There are four churchyards in the Parish of Ballintemple namely Bruskey, Potahee, and two in Ballintemple. They are all still in use, and the graveyards are square in shape.
In one of the graveyards of Ballintemple there are trees growing. The old graveyard of Ballintemple is seldom used now.
In the new graveyard there are many tombs-stones and flowers. There are three vaults in the new graveyard. They are built like a little house, with a flat roof, and turrets around the edge of the vaults. Doherty a landlord who owned the estate of Derrylane is buried in the first vault, this vault dates back to 1888.
Robert Smyth who was drowned at Punjab, India is buried in the second vault.
The name of the person buried in the third vault is unknown.

the Multeen, which rises in the hills and then flows down towards Ballintemple where it joins the Blackbridge in Mr Ryan's land and then it flows in the Suir near Golden.
The oldest man in Ballintemple is Mr Huorihan. He is eighty - nine years and is a great fisherman. Every day when then is a flood in the river he goes fishing.
Ballintemple graveyard is very big and crowded. The most common name in it is O'Dwyer. There are some very old stones and some of them have fallen down There is a huge old vault in the middle covered with ivy and an old iron gate going into it. It is full of owls nests.
Near the graveyard is an old quarry with very high banks around it. The land in Ballintgemple is good. Both dairying and tillage and carried on. The houses are more numerous now that they were. Since the selling out of the Dundrum Estate about thirty years ago more have been built.
The townland got its name from the church which used to be in Ballintemple

O'Harte's Castle. This castle is situated in the townland of Ballinfull. It was inhabited by the O'Harte family until they were driven out of it by the 'Settlers". It is now in ruins only part of the walls and an arched doorway remaining.Ballintemple.
A ruined monastery stands in Ballintemple. Mass was said in secret here during the penal times. There is a graveyard adjacent containing many small tomb stones in cut stone but no inscriptions are to be found on them.
A new graveyard has since been consecrated in Carrigans. No burials now take place in Ballintemple.

tree and as long as the nail stays there you will never have the toothache. Miss Kemp, Ballintemple has the cure for the whitlow.

It is said there is a treasure hid in Drumhilla fort in parish of Ballintemple, Co. Cavan.
The entrance begins at Carrigan creamery also in Ballintemple Parish, and no one has ever got in, for when they would go a little way a swarm of bees would come out in their faces and if they got in they would have to leave some dead animal in its place

There are four graveyards in the parish of Ballintemple. Two are in Ballintemple and one in Potahee and another at Ballinagh.
Ballintemple graveyards are separated by the public road, The old graveyard is on the left side going up, and the new one on the right side.
Both graveyards are square. The one though quite level because of slopes in no direction. Both graveyards are surrounded by a high wall. There are no trees in the old graveyard except a few palms. In the new graveyards there are lots of palms and very large trees in these trees the crows have their rookery. In the old graveyard there is a flag stone over the grave of Viscount Fleming who built Fleming Folly. The writing on this slab is closed in .
On the edge of this slab is written. "Died 25th of October 1795". On the head of this slab there is a shield with a dragon and a man on it. On each side of the shield there is a battle axe, on the slab there is ornamental carving.

There are four grave-yards in this parish, Bruskey, Aughaloora, Ballintemple, Potahee is situated in the downland of Potahee Bruskey in the downland of Aughloora. All these graveyards are still in use. Aughaloora graveyard is round in shape. There is a churn in Potahee and Aughaloora. There is a church in Bruskey but the graveyard is a half a mile from it in the downland of Lullaby. There isa a protestant church in Ballintemple but there is a catholic burial ground. These graveyards are still in use. There are no trees growing in Potahee. There are no old tombs or monuments. There are no ornamented crosses in Potahee graveyard. Some of the crosses are wooden and others are marble. There

We have two very old stones at home. My father found them about forty years ago. He got one in a field; it is like this:It is brown in colour, and very smooth and one side is raised a little.The other stone he found in the stream. It is black and is very hard and is shaped like this:They were found in Ballintemple townland, parish of Ballintemple, Barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary.

In a field belonging to Mr Ryan in Ballintemple, are two pillar stones They are both 4' 6" high.
In one of the stones there are two holes and between the holes there is the letter "R", and on the other side there is the letter "A." The top of one is like a spear and the other is as flat as a pan. They are very round.These stones are on the land of Mr Ryan, Ballintemple, Golden, Co. Tipp. Barony of Kilnananagh Lower.

We live in the townland of Ballintemple, parish of Ballintemple, in the Barony of Kilnamanagh Lower. Outside our fence is Clanwilliam.
There are about twenty families, farmers and labourers in it, and about ninety people altogether. Most of them have slated houses but some are thatched.
There is a river near us called

The roads round my district are called the Millroad, the bog road, the Rathenny road, the Templemore road and the Ballintemple road.
The Millbroad leads from the Templemore Rd, to the Rathenny Rd. The Bog Rd. leads from Moneygall to Robinson's Cross. The Rathenny rd. leads from Cloughjordan to Rathenny cross. The Templemore Rd. leads from Templemore to Cloughjordan. The Ballintemple Rd. leads from the Bog Rd. to Emill Cross.
The Mill Rd. is very old. It is still used. The roads were supposed to have been made in the famine times. This was done so as to give employment to

Cannon's Quarter 1 When Cromwell was in Ireland he visited Tullow. A castle stood where the Protestant church is now (this castle was built by the Normans). So that he might attack the castle Cromwell had soldiers & ammunition in Cannon's Quarters. That is how the townsland is supposed to have got its name.
Ballintemple II
Balljntemple is about five miles from Tullow. It must have got its name from a church or temple which stood near Ballintemple House. This field where the church stood is still known as "The Church Field". This field is situated beside the River Slaney.

My father remembers a football match being played about forty years ago in the townland of Marahill, between Drumlane Sons of O'Connell and Lacken Celtics. There were seventeen players on each side. It was an inter-Parish game and the teams were the picked men of Drumlane and Ballintemple Parishes. Drumlane won the match but the game was very rough and several players were hurt. One man was hurt very badly he had to be carried off the field. The names of the players who won fame on Drumlane side. were Hugh Maguire. John Brady. Sam Moore. John Browne. (Butty). Owen Reilly. and Big James Reilly. On Ballintemple side were. Peter Corr, and Francis Corr. Peter Maguire. Wm Shaughnessy. I have not heard of the ball being kicked from townland to townland in this locality. They had no togs Only they played with their coats off. They used the Ordinary leather ball. Goal posts were used. Hurling was not played in our district. Hand-ball is generally played in towns and villages. There is a ball-alley in Miltown there has been no game played there for

There is a Mass - path from Ballinagh Bridge to Potshee Church Co. Cavan, called Garrymore Lane.
From Ballintemple road to Garrymore, there is a bridge which people call a ford.
The main road 100 years ago, was from Arva to Wateraughy Co Cavan. It is an old by-road now.
Animica Bridge at Ballintemple Co. Cavan, was supposed to be called "the Race of the black pig". The black pig was said to be a race of enchanted people who went across the bridge.

There is a lane in the parish of Ballintemple and it is called Ballintemple Lane. There is a house at the end of the lane which is about half mile from main road, and the person who lives in it now is Robert Acheson a relative of John Doherty. John Doherty is dead now, when he died he left his house to his relative Robert Acheson, John Dorothy had a coach drawn by two horses. It is said many people have seen this coach at night after his death going up the lane to where he lived.
There is a little house in the haggard where he used to keep his coach. It is said that he goes up the lane every night and he leaves his coach and two horses in this house and it is called "Doherty's Dead Coach".